The Watchman On The Wall

Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Lee Stoneking Gives His Testimony of being raised from the dead and preaches the "Word" (Yeshua) of God to the General Assembly to the United Nations! Praise Yeshua, Yeshua Akbar! Click the link below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sy6YJGdvE

People are incessantly speculating about the dark secrets housed by the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican, but one secret alone serves as the bedrock for understanding the mystery, nature, and scope of her gross deceptions. Watch the interesting video below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH9f2aRTbKM

Written by Wayne Allyn Root

I am a Jew turned
evangelical Christian. I am also a passionate supporter of Donald Trump.

I have a
message for Christians who don’t like Donald Trump:“YOU’RE MISSING THE BOAT.”

Christians
have Trump all wrong. God sends messages in many forms. You’re just not
listening. God is talking, but you’re eyes and ears are closed.

Here’s a famous joke about God and how
he talks to us.“A deeply faithful Christian man is
stuck on roof of home with massive flooding up to 2ndfloor. Rowboat comes. He
says “No, I’m waiting for God. I’ve prayed and I know he’s coming.” 2ndrowboat.
“No, I’m waiting for God.” 3rdrowboat.
“No, I’m waiting for God.”Water rises. The man drowns. Now he’s
meeting God in heaven. The religious man says “Where were you God? I prayed. I
was faithful. I asked you to save me. Why would you abandon me?”God says, “Hey dummy, I sent you 3
rowboats. Are you blind?”

Did you ever consider Trump is our
rowboat?Maybe God is trying to tell us
something important- that now is not the time for a “nice Christian guy” or a
“gentleman” or a typical Republican powder puff. Maybe now is the time for a
natural born killer, a ruthless fighter, a warrior.Because right about now we need a
miracle, or America is finished.Maybe the rules of gentleman don’t
apply here. Maybe a gentleman and “all-around nice Christian” would lead us to
slaughter.Or do you want another Mitt Romney,
Bob Dole, John McCain, Gerald Ford or Paul Ryan? Did any of them win? Did they
lead the GOP to “the promised land?” Did they change the direction of America?
No, because if you don’t win, you have no say.Paul
Ryan couldn’t even deliver his own state Wisconsin!And as leader of the House, Paul Ryan
rolls over to Obama like my dog rolls over for a scrap of food, or a steak
bone. He’s a useful idiot. Nice, but obedient. I mean Paul Ryan…not my dog. My
dog is actually a pretty good defender and loyal.Maybe God is knocking on your door
so loud, but you’re not listening. Maybe God understands we need a "war
leader" at this moment in time. Maybe God understands if we don’t win this
election, America is dead. It’s over. The greatest nation in world history will
be gone. Finished. Kaput. Adios.And with one last breath, maybe what
we need to save us at the last second, is someone different.Someone you haven’t ever experienced
before because you weren’t raised in rough and tumble New York where nothing
good gets accomplished unless you're combative, aggressive, outrageous, on
offense at all times, and maybe just a tad arrogant too.Someone with a personality you’ve
never seen on stage at your church.Maybe, just maybe, being a nice
gentlemanly Christian would not beat Hillary, and her billion dollars, and her
best friends in the media who will unleash the dogs of hell upon the GOP
nominee.I guess you think God is only nice and
gentlemanly.Really?Then you’ve missed the whole point of
the Bible. When necessary God is a pretty tough guy. When necessary, God
strikes with pain, death and destruction. When necessary, God inflicts
vengeance.Maybe you think God couldn't possibly
be associated with someone like Trump. Trump is too vicious, rude and crude.When we won WWII, was God "nice?"
Were we gentlemanly when defeating Hitler? Were we gentlemanly when firebombing
Germany? Were we gentlemanly when dropping atomic bombs on Japan? Is God ever
"nice" on the battlefield? Or does he send us vicious SOB’s like
General George S. Patton, so the good guys can defeat evil?It’s pretty clear to me God sends
unique people to be "war leaders." That’s a different role than a
pastor or church leader. God understands that.Maybe God purposely sent Trump instead
of the nice Republican powder puffs like Paul Ryan, or Mitt Romney, or John
Kasich because he wants us to win.And maybe it’s time to re-define
“nice.” Maybe Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan aren’t nice at all because they led us
to defeat. And losing again would mean the end of America. And God can’t allow
that.Maybe Romney and Ryan mean well, but
the road to hell is paved with good intentions.Or maybe they’re just jealous they had
their chance and blew it. Maybe they’d rather help elect Hillary than allow a
Trump victory that would make them look weak, feckless and incompetent.I was reading the Bible this morning
and I found the perfect verse that explains the success of Donald Trump…"Even
the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But
those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with
wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not
faint." (Isiah
40:30-31)It’s almost like God created this
verse for Donald Trump and this moment in history.

Trump
is our energy.More energy than any candidate
EVER. He took on the 16 best candidates in GOP history...all younger than
him...all with better political credentials...and destroyed them with his
energy. You mean that kind of energy in a 70-year old isn't inspired by God?

Trump
renews our strength.Or does the all-time record
turnout and all-time record votes for a GOP presidential primary candidate not
define “strength?"

With Trump we mount up with wings like
eagles.With
Trump as our leader there is nothing we can’t do. Any man that can build
skyscrapers in Manhattan and vanquish 16 presidential opponents, while spending
almost nothing…can lead us to the heights of eagles.

With
Trump we run, we are not weary.Just when we get tired of the
fight against O’bomber, Killary, big government, big business, big media, big
unions...just when it all seems impossible to overcome the powerful forces of
evil... along comes Trump to re-energize us.Trump inspires us. Trump gives us
hope. Trump gives us confidence in victory. Trump gives us just a touch of
arrogance. Maybe God understands that’s exactly what we need right at this late
stage to save America.

God is about
miracles. We don’t need a “nice guy” or a “gentleman” right now. It’s the 4th quarter and we’re losing 14-0. We
need a miracle.

So let me repeat my
message to Christians:“YOU’RE MISSING THE BOAT.”I believe Trump is our miracle. I
believe Trump is our rowboat.Except he’s more like abattleship!No one is saying Trump is perfect.
No one is saying Trump is a perfect conservative. But he is a patriot. He is a
warrior. He is a capitalist. He is the right man, at the right time.Yes, he's a bit rude and crude and
offensive. But that may make him the perfect warrior to save America, American
exceptionalism, capitalism and Judeo-Christian values.The choice should be easy for
Christians. It’s Trump…or it’s the end of the America.

Thank you Watchman. Gotta tell you, the last time she and I communicated she told me to never bring up the subject of God again or she would never have a relationship with me. I stopped for a few weeks and then your article came thru and God nudged me to send it to her. Well she called me and told me that she and her friends in Italy decided that she was a deist. We talked about that and I started quizzing her. She evidently read that article and said that yes she believed Jesus was the Son of God, died and rose again because " mom, why would anyone die those horrible deaths had they not witnessed His resurrection? She was very passionate about it and kept repeating it.

So thank you for sharing, Al, I think it was that article and the fact that xxxxxx elevates smart people that she finally got it.

Keep them coming!

YSICJ,

K

Hi Watchman,

I read
your article about Habukkuk, and i have been there. i have also been
guilty of wanting the judgment to come to this nation because she is so
deserving of it. The Lord has rebuked me for this, and has told me that i
must be praying for mercy during judgment, b/c if He does NOT have mercy, there
will be nothing left but cinders in America - if justice is served, the nation
will be utterly wiped out. He has instructed me to pray for the salvation
of the people of our nation, and i believe that these prayers are efficacious,
and that some people will be saved who would not have been if i did not pray
daily for the people of our nation.

Though He
delays the judgment, He knows what He is doing and we must trust Him on the
timing of it. Whether it is tomorrow or two years from now, He is
just. More people are waking, and more are praying. i pray that only
His judgment comes upon us and none of the enemy's plans, for the enemy will
make the evil that befalls this land so much worse. Just like the Babylonians
went far beyond what God required of them, so would the tool He uses to punish
us this time, unless He stops it. So i pray daily that He stops them from
overdoing it.

Please
join me in praying for mercy for our nation, though we do not deserve it. I
use Daniel's chapter 9 prayer for Israel, for the pattern of one of my prayers,
along with deliverance prayers to pray for our nation. I have attached
this prayer, hoping that Daniel's wisdom and humility will be pleasing before
the Lord.

But i
understand exactly how you feel. He has instructed me not to pray for the
judgment to come on this nation, but to pray for mercy, for when it begins, it
will be terrible indeed, and His mercy will result in more being saved, not
less.

I
appreciated your article, thank you for writing it.

Blessings
to you brother

DianeModified Daniel Chapter 9 Prayer for the USA

In answer to the Lord’s question: Will you
stand in the gap?Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make
request by prayer and impassioned plea, with fasting, mourning, and ashes on my
head. And I prayed to the Lord
my God, and made confession, and said, "O Lord, great and awesome God, who
keeps His agreements with us and provides mercy to those who love Him, and to
those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have
done depraved and immoral acts, and we have rebelled, by callously disobeying
Your laws and Your judgments. Neither
have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our
President and our Congress, our Courts, to our churches, our elders and all the
people of the land. O Lord, morality
and uprightness belong to You, but we are ashamed, everywhere in this land--all
the citizens of the United States are ashamed, all the residents of the cities
and all the states are ashamed, those near and those far off, in Europe, the
Middle East, and Asia, countries where you have scattered our sons and
daughters, because of our unfaithfulness, and all the wrong-doing we have
committed against You. We are all ashamed of ourselves.

"O Lord, appalling shame falls on our nation,
on our President, our Congress, on our Courts, and on all our citizens, because
we have all sinned against You. We
thank God that He is merciful and forgiving, though we have rebelled against
Him. We have not obeyed the voice of
the Lord our God, to obey His laws, which He
set before us by His servants the prophets. Yes,
all of the United States has transgressed Your law, and has departed, refusing
to obey Your voice; therefore all the curses and the oaths written in the Law
of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, and on our nation,
because we have sinned against You. And
You have confirmed Your words, which You spoke against us and against our
judges who judged us, by bringing upon us great disaster; for under the whole
heaven, nothing as disastrous as what has befallen our nation at this time has
ever happened to it before.

"As it is written in the Law of Moses,
all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not turned to prayer before the
Lord
our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
Therefore the Lord has kept the disaster in mind, and
brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is blameless and upright
in all the judgments that He decrees, because we have not obeyed His voice. And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your
people out of many nations with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, in
this land--we have sinned, we have done horrible wrongs without a thought and
without care, smirking and prideful the whole way, and scorning Your help!

"O Lord, according to all Your decency and
uprightness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned into a righteous
judgment on Your nation which You established, this place established for
Christians, and by Christians; because of our sins, and because of the
iniquities of our fathers, the nation and this people are a reproach to
all those around us, and we cause shame to be piled on Your Holy Name. Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of
Your servants, and our supplications, and for the Lord's sake cause Your face
to shine on this nation, which has been devastated. Turn away further
judgment unless it results in a massive turning to You, O Lord, and pour out
Your Holy Spirit on our nation. Turn us back to You and to Your Word. O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open
Your eyes and see our desolations, and the land which was established as a
praise to Your name; for we do not present our pleas and prayers before You
because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord,
listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your nation and
this land that are established for your people, so that we again bring honor to
Your name."

In
Jesus’ Name we renounce any hold on the US by seducing or perverse spirits and
renounce any sexual and spiritual binding over the United States, and we
renounce any authority we have given to those spirits when we submitted
ourselves to them. In Jesus’ Name we renounce any bonds of hatred
we have against anyone and take back all authority we have given to them or to
the spirit of hatred. We forgive, bless, and release them. In
Jesus’ Name, we renounce any authority we gave to a lying spirit by supporting
the lies, listening to the lies, actively passing on the lies, or compromising
with the liars, and we renounce any bonds the lying spirit has over the United
States. In Jesus’ Name, we renounce all authority we gave to the spirit
of antichrist, the spirit of bondage, the spirit of divination, the spirit of
error, the spirit of haughtiness, the spirit of jealousy, all perverse spirits,
all seducing spirits, and all spirits of fear. In the Name of Jesus, we
renounce any known or unknown covenant, agreement or commitment that was made
with these spirits or people representing them. In the Name of Jesus, we
take back all authority we lost as a result of paying for occult services, or
secretly treasuring them in our hearts. In the Name of Jesus, we break
any curse over the nation and over our leaders and declare it null and
void. In the Name of Jesus, we break all bindings that these spirits have
placed on the United States.

Pour
out your Holy Spirit on this land, on our President, our congress, our courts,
our state and local leaders, our citizens, our children, and our
churches. Seal this work in our land and help us to take back this nation
as a righteous nation. Let us not be found in the camp of the
unrighteous. As any disaster is allowed in this land, protect those who
respect your Name from harm, and cover them with your wings.

Your Watchman found the prophet Habakuk fascinating because I have been having exactly the same conversation with God that Habakuk had. I have been depressed about the state of our wicked nation and the world and several times a day I ask Yeshua to come back and stop the incessant violence and wickedness in the world.

The prophet Habakkuk wrote about the same
time as Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel. It was just before the Babylonians
swooped down upon Judah and God punished the Israelites for their idolatry. The Jews were carried off in 586 BC after 19 years of siege and failed diplomacy. As they left,
the Babylonians destroyed the city and the Temple, taking its priceless artifacts along
with their captives to Babylon for 70 years of servitude. All this had been
foretold by Jeremiah from Jerusalem and Ezekiel from Babylon, where he and
Daniel had been held as hostages since the early stages of the conquest.

Habakkuk’s message differs from the other
prophets in that it consists solely of a dialog with God.It opens with
Habakkuk’s complaint that God would allow so much evil to prosper in the land
without doing anything about it.

In response, Habakkuk learns that God is
finally going to act, but has chosen the Babylonians, a people much more evil
than the Israelites, to do the job. He can’t believe it. Sure, Judah deserves
to be punished, but how can a righteous God justify using such an evil force as
Babylon against His own people? Instead of being judged themselves, the most
depraved and unjust nation on Earth is going to be rewarded with the chance to
punish God’s people. How is that fair? Now Habakkuk’s really upset!

Throughout Habakuk gets the benefit of God’s perspective
and finally, as is always the case when man questions God, winds up
apologizing.

While the prophecies of Habakkuk were largely
fulfilled in the Babylonian conquest, there’s a striking similarity between
conditions in Judah in 600BC and those in the Western World, especially
America, today.

Commenting on Israel’s history, the Apostle
Paul said,“These
things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us,
on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.”(1 Cor.
10:11) In other words, events in Israel’s history had the dual
purpose of instructing them through experience and us through observation.

I believe it was Mark Twain who said, “The only
time experience is the best teacher is when it’s somebody else’s experience.”
This is exactly what God had in mind for us, to learn from Israel’s experience.
And that includes the events of Habakkuk’s time.

Someone else said that those who fail to learn
from history are condemned to repeat it, so as we go through this study let’s
remember that, like ancient Israel, much of the West at one time claimed to
believe in God and pledged our fidelity to Him. But now we’ve denied that
belief in large part, and have withdrawn our fidelity.

Like Israel we began by first tolerating and
then following other gods. Like Israel we started out by including them with
Him in our worship and moved from there to excluding Him altogether in favor of
them. As we’ve done this, our system of justice has failed and evil is
triumphing over good all too often. In short we’re as ripe for judgment as they
were.

I do not believe it is a coincidence that a powerful force (ISIS and al Qaeda) from the very region on Earth that spawned the Babylonians, a force we consider
to be much more evil than we are, has arisen with the stated goal of judging
God’s people both Jew and Christian? Or is history repeating itself? If it is
then the Prophecies of Habakkuk could have easily been written for our time as
well. Let’s find out.

The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet
received. How long, O LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry
out to you, “Violence!” Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you
tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and
conflict abounds. Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.(Habakkuk
1:1-4)

Indeed, in our day the wicked prosper and I wonder why! As it was in Habakkuk’s time, concerned
believers bemoan the current state of affairs in the world wondering why God
puts up with it. They witness the break down of family, the increase of
violence, the systematic perversion of justice, and the seeming triumph of evil
over good, and shake their heads in bewilderment.

“Look at the nations and watch- and be
utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not
believe, even if you were told. I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless
and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwelling places
not their own. They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to
themselves and promote their own honor. Their horses are swifter than leopards,
fiercer than wolves at dusk. Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen
come from afar. They fly like a vulture swooping to devour; they all come bent
on violence. Their hordes] advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like
sand. They deride kings and scoff at rulers. They laugh at all fortified
cities; they build earthen ramps and capture them. Then they sweep past like
the wind and go on— guilty men, whose own strength is their god.”(Habakkuk
1:5-11)

Many wonder if the dramatic increase in the
frequency and intensity of natural disasters is signaling God’s displeasure,
but very few have defined the sudden rise of Islamic terrorism and ISIS as a judgment
from God. Even considering the possibility provokes the same question from us
as it did from Habakkuk. How could a righteous God use such an evil force
against His people? And yet in the past He’s used the Egyptians, the
Philistines, the Assyrians, the Romans, the Germans, the Russians and others,
all godless in their time and all evil in their motivations. The only
difference is that He came right out and told His people He was using many of
those others, and so far as we know He hasn’t said anything like that about
Islamic terrorism. (Of course the terrorists have said it, but nobody believes
them.) Again I ask, is it just coincidence or are we supposed to draw
conclusions about this from history? I believe we’re just like the people of Habakkuk’s
time in that we wouldn’t believe it even if we were told.

O LORD, are you not from everlasting? My
God, my Holy One, we will not die. O LORD, you have appointed them to execute
judgment; O Rock, you have ordained them to punish. Your eyes are too pure to
look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Why then do you tolerate the
treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more
righteous than themselves? You have made men like fish in the sea, like sea creatures
that have no ruler. The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks, he catches
them in his net, he gathers them up in his dragnet; and so he rejoices and is
glad.

Therefore he sacrifices to his net and
burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the
choicest food. Is he to keep on emptying his net, destroying nations without
mercy?(Habakkuk 1:12-17)

Surely the Lord couldn’t be behind the rise in
terrorism. He’s too pure. He couldn’t possibly condone that kind of evil, could
He? But somehow, like the tentacles of some giant yet invisible octopus,
Islamic terrorists have slithered into every western society and according to
some have positioned themselves undetected like moles underground at our most vulnerable points,
awaiting the signal to strike. And we admittedly have no certain defense
against what will surely be a devastating attack. “It’s inevitable,” we’re
told. How did they accomplish this? Will the Lord really permit this to happen
to his own people?

The terrorists do not acknowledge "The One True God" as their benefactor after they strike. They do not proclaim Yeshua as their God. They give the credit to the one they worship, Allah the moon god. They offer prayers to the moon god because he brings them the
victory.

The Israelites expected God to protect them
from the Babylonians. They convinced themselves that He would never permit any
harm to come to them, even as the Babylonians were camped outside their gates.
They were His people, after all. Never mind their unfaithfulness, their lusting
after false gods, their disrespect for the fatherless, the down trodden, the
widows. Never mind that they only gave lip service to their beliefs, that their
worship had become form without substance, ceremony without meaning, that they
sacrificed their children to Molech in the name of prosperity, and worshipped the idols
of the harvest and Baal.

It’s different now, we say. But is it? We sing,
“God bless America” playing lip service to our relationship while our sins pile
up to the heavens just as theirs did. We have sacrificed 60 million babies to Molech via abortion and feel no shame about it. And even now, as our leaders admit the
inevitability of further attacks and as our countries suffer storms and
earthquakes and the threat of pandemic disease, are our churches and synagogues
full of repentant worshipers, praying as Habakkuk did,“In
wrath, remember mercy”? (Habakkuk
3:2)

For over 50 years Christians have looked with
concern on the plight of Israel while Islamic enemies periodically tried to
wipe them off the face of the Earth. Now the fight’s come to us, just as they
promised it would, and we seem surprised. We don’t even consider that this
might be another, stronger warning from God.

A few conservative preachers call terrorism an
attack on our religion, but not even they suggest that it might be more than
that. They join the secular voices demanding stronger fences on our borders,
bigger weapons in our arsenals, more drone attacks and tighter and tighter restrictions on our populations,
but where are the voices calling for repentance from our lifestyle, or for mass
prayer vigils in our auditoriums and stadiums? Are we already so far gone that
God has spoken to them as He spoke to Jeremiah. “So do
not pray for this people (the U.S. and the West) nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead
with me, for I will not listen to you.(Jeremiah
7:16)

Monday, June 27, 2016

What is the Federal Reserve system? How did it come into existence? Is it part of the federal government? How does it create money? Why is the public kept in the dark about these important matters? In this feature-length documentary film, The Corbett Report explores these important question and pulls back the curtain on America's central bank.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IJeemTQ7Vk

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Market cycle analyst Bo Polny says his big cycles measure 252
years (2016). 1764 (the British Currency Act) was the beginning of the last cycle, and there was turmoil then
too. Polny explains, “We are out of time, and 2016 will be judgement, and there
is all kinds of judgement that the Bible talks about. This is a judgement
cycle. Last time there was the currency act of 1764 (imposed on the U.S. by
Britain). They forced Britsh currency on the colonies, and the American colonies got poverty, hunger, joblessness,
anger and then the Revolutionary War. That same cycle is repeating now. There’s going to be
wars and rumors of war. There’s going to be poverty. There is going to be hunger.
There’s going to be all these things happening, and I think it’s going to be
sudden.”

Polny
predicts that people will catch what he calls “gold fever.” Polny explains,
“The moment gold goes vertical, people are going to realize gold is money. Gold actually is insurance against paper money. When paper money
fails, then your insurance policy pays out with money, gold money. So, it’s
just that simple. . . . Gold is only an asset and insurance policy if you are
holding it.”

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Recently I was
challenged to make a list of all the passages in the Bible that hint of a
pre-trib rapture. As you may know I believe Paul was the first person on Earth
to present a clear pre-trib teaching, about 20 years after the cross. Before
that time it was unknown because Jesus didn’t teach it to His other disciples
during their time together. And since the Olivet Discourse is directed at
Israel, there’s no mention of it there either, even though the end times is in
view. Israel will not participate in the rapture.

Now I’ll be the
first to admit that doing this requires that you already have a working
knowledge of the pre-trib position, because without it you wouldn’t recognize
some of these references as being pertinent to the subject. But ever since Paul
revealed the rapture, scholars have been seeing hints of it here and there,
even in the Old Testament.

Before we begin, in1 Cor. 2:6-8Paul explained why God’s plans for the Church
had been kept secret until after the crucifixion. He said that if the rulers of
this age (Satan & Co.) had understood all that God intended for us they
would not have crucified the Lord. Not that they could have stopped it, of
course. But had they known God was going to use the murder of His Son to save
us all, they wouldn’t have gone ahead with it, and in fact would have tried to
prevent it. It wasn’t until He was on the cross that they discovered the Lord’s
death was going to become payment in full for all our sins, so instead of it
being cause for a great celebration it totally disarmed them and made them into
a public spectacle (Colossians 2:13-15). Then, 20 years
later, they learned about the rapture. These were both things that God had
planned from the beginning, but a good general keeps his strategy a secret in
order to take his enemy by surprise, so God didn’t let Satan (or anyone else)
know about these things until it was too late for him to react. Even now, Satan
doesn’t know when the rapture is coming. All he knows is what we know, that
each new believer could be the last one, the one that takes us all out of here
and beyond his reach forever.

I’m convinced that
God’s plan requires the Church to disappear before Daniel’s 70th week begins.
Remember, the Lord set aside 70 weeks (490 years) for Israel to accomplish 6
things. (Daniel 9:24) At the end of 69
weeks (483 years) Jesus was crucified, the clock suddenly stopped, and Israel
disappeared along with its Temple and Old Covenant worship. Daniel’s prophecy
was left incomplete and from that time on, God’s focus was on the church.

The reappearance of
Israel in 1948, the promised rebuilding of a Temple, and the resumption of
Levitical sacrifice during the 70th week make it clear that the Church didn’t
end the dispensation of Law but only interrupted it seven years short of its
intended duration. We would all agree that if the introduction of a dam into a
stream of water interrupts its flow, then it’s reasonable and logical to
conclude that removal of the dam will be necessary for the flow to resume.
Therefore if the introduction of the Church after the 69th week of Daniels
prophecy caused the interruption in its fulfillment, it’s reasonable and
logical to conclude that the Church will have to be removed before the final
seven years of the dispensation of Law can run their course and Daniel’s
prophecy can be fulfilled.

Of course there are
other sound reasons why the church has to disappear before the End Times begin
in earnest. Not having a destiny on Earth, our presence here would serve no
purpose during the time of Earth’s liberation from bondage (Romans 8:19-21). Not being subject to judgment the
Church has no unfinished business with God that could be concluded during the
End Times. Unlike Israel we don’t need to be made righteous because we’re
already as righteous as God is (2 Cor. 5:21).

Jeremiah 30:11says the End time judgments will serve a two
fold purpose, to completely destroy all the nations among which Israel has been
scattered and to discipline Israel. Since God does not consider the Church to
be part of either Israel or the nations, our presence on Earth during that time
would be unnecessary.

But the most
important reason, as we’ll see, is that God said we won’t be here. Those who
teach the Church’s presence on Earth during any part of Daniel’s 70th Week have
to re-define grace, re-invent the church and re-interpret the Scriptures to
support their position.

With that
introduction, let’s look at some of the clearest hints God placed in the
Scriptures to show He has always planned for a pre-tribulation rapture of the
church. Naturally, we’ll begin in the Old Testament.

Enoch Disappeared

Enoch walked with
God; then he was no more, because God took Him away.(Genesis 5:24)

InMatt. 24:37, Jesus said that the time of His coming
would be like the days of Noah. He went onto explain that just as all the
unbelievers perished in the flood, all unbelievers would perish at the time of
His 2nd coming as well. Those who survive the devastation of the Great
Tribulation will immediately face judgment and be taken off the planet. The
parables of the servant, the ten virgins, and the talents explain this, as does
the account of the Sheep and Goat judgment. (Matt. 24:45-25:46)

But if you give the
Lord’s statement its widest possible application, you can see that as the time
of the Great Flood drew near there were 3 kinds of people on Earth. There were
the unbelievers who perished in the flood, Noah and his family who were preserved
through it, and Enoch, who was taken by the Lord well before it.

Just so, as the End
of the Age draws near there will still be three kinds of people on Earth. They
are the unbelievers of our time who will perish in the End Times judgments,
modern Israel who will be preserved through them, and the Church who will be
taken by God well before they begin.

There some
interesting similarities between Enoch and the Church. For starters, the name
Enoch comes from a root which means to train or teach. To the church Jesus
said, “Go and make disciples (students) of all men.” (Matt. 28:19) And according to Hebrew tradition,
Enoch was born on the day that would become Pentecost. It’s the same day the
Church was born. I believe Enoch was an early type of the Church and his
disappearance before the flood gave the first hint of a pre-tribulation
rapture.

Lot Had To Leave Sodom

But flee there
quickly, because I can not do anything until you reach it.(Genesis 19:23)

Abraham had struck a
bargain with the Lord that if even 10 righteous people could be found in Sodom
and Gomorrah He would spare the cities. The fact that the cities were destroyed
indicates 10 righteous people could not be found there. But there was one, and
though He wasn’t bound to do it, the Lord instructed the angels to get Lot out
of town before commencing their judgment. As you see above,Genesis 19:22tells us the angels could not execute the
judgment upon Sodom and Gomorrah until Lot was safely away. Peter
referred to Lot’s rescue from Sodom as evidence that the Lord does not judge
the righteous with the wicked (2 Peter 2:7-9). Lot therefore becomes a model of the Church, who with a
righteousness imputed by faith, has to be removed from the time and place of
judgment before it begins.

Where Was Daniel?

Daniel 3contains one of the
most popular children’s stories of the Old Testament. Many don’t realize that
it’s also one of the clearest models of the End Times anywhere in the Bible.
King Nebuchadnezzar represents the anti-Christ who decrees that anyone who
refuses to bow down and worship the statue he has made will be put to death in
the fiery furnace, which represents Great Tribulation. Daniel’s three friends,
representing Israel, refuse to worship the image and are thrown into the
furnace to die. While in there they encounter the Lord, are preserved through
the judgment, and are elevated to positions of honor in Babylon.

But where was
Daniel? He was a prominent figure both before and after chapter 3. But in this
episode his name was not even mentioned. Did he worship the statue to escape
judgment? If you think that, you don’t know Daniel. Did he refuse to bow down
but was not accused? If you think that, you don’t know his enemies. After all
they rounded up his three closest friends. For the purposes of this story it’s
as if he has disappeared altogether. In chapter 3, Daniel was a model of the Church, who during the End
times judgments will have disappeared altogether, while a believing remnant of
Israel will be preserved through them, meet the Lord in the midst of them, and
be elevated to positions of honor in the Kingdom Age.

Isaiah Said It Best

But your dead will
live; their bodies will rise. You who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for
joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her
dead.

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind
you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.

See, the LORD is
coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins.
The earth will disclose the blood shed upon her; she will conceal her slain no
longer.(Isaiah 26:19-21)

Without a doubt this
is the clearest statement of the Lord’s intentions for the Church anywhere in
the Old Testament. It can’t be tied to any event in history, but clearly awaits
a future fulfillment. And it can’t be intended for Israel, whose resurrection
will come after the time of God’s wrath, not before it. (Daniel 12:1-2)

Some day soon a
group of people will suddenly rise from the dead. Another group, still living,
will be whisked away to rooms prepared for them to be hidden from the time of
God’s wrath. Then the Lord will punish the people of the Earth for their sins.
The fact that the groups being resurrected and hidden are not objects of his
wrath is indicated by the switch from second person (resurrected and hidden) to
third person (punished). Notice how similar the wording is to1 Thes 4:16-17 & 5:9, Paul’s teaching on the rapture.

But your dead will
live; their bodies will rise. (The dead in Christ will rise first).

Go, my people, enter
your rooms and shut the doors behind you;(After that we who are alive and left will be
caught up to meet the Lord in the air)

It’s appropriate to
insertJohn 14:2-3here as well to see what rooms Isaiah was
talking about.

In my Father’s house
are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to
prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

This promise does
not point to the 2nd Coming when the Lord will come to Earth to be with Israel
here, where they are. This is a promise to the Church that He has gone to His
father’s house to prepare our rooms for us. Then He will come for us to take us
there, where He is.

See, the LORD is
coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins.(For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but
to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.)

I’m convinced this
is the passage Paul had in mind when he said“According to the Lord’s own word, we
tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord,
will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.“ (1 Thes. 4:15). I say this because with the exception
of1 Thes 4:16-17there is no passage in all the Bible that so
clearly describes the pre-trib rapture of the Church.

This is not the sum
of Old Testament verses that point to a pre-tribulation rapture. But it’s a
good sample of the clearest ones, to help you see that God always intended to
take us to be with him before He unleashes the End Times judgments upon the
unbelieving Earth. Next time we’ll take a similar survey of the New Testament.

A company based out of California, known as
Senomyx, is in the business of using aborted embryonic cells to test fake
flavoring chemicals, both savory and sweet, which are then added to things like
soft drinks, candy and cookies. And Senomyx has admittedly partnered with a
number of major food manufacturers to lace its cannibalistic additives into all
sorts of factory foods scarfed down by millions of American consumers every
single day.

Known as “HEK-293,” the aborted
human fetal cell line used by Senomyx is manipulated to evaluate how the human
palate will react to synthetic flavors used in the production of processed
foods. Since most processed foods on the market today are hardly food to begin
with, and typically lack any real flavor or appeal on their own, chemical
companies like Senomyx are hired to develop artificial ones (which are often deceptively labeled
as “natural flavors”) in order to make them taste like real food.

But because these
ingredients can be legally disguised with vague descriptors like “artificial
flavors” and even “natural flavors,” most consumers have no idea that these
additives, in some cases, are actually made using the cell tissue of unborn
babies that were murdered through abortion. It’s sickening but true, and people
must learn the truth in order to avoid partaking in what EndAllDisease.com says
amounts to a satanic ritual.

“What they don’t
tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 — human embryonic kidney cells
taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors,” Debi
Vinnedge of the pro-life group Children of God for Life said about the ugly
truth of the flavoring chemical industry. “They could have easily chosen
animal, insect, or other morally obtained human cells expressing the G protein
for taste receptors.”

Processed food
isn’t the only hidden source of additives made using aborted human fetal tissue
— many so-called “beauty products” and vaccines are also loaded with aborted
baby tissue-derived additives. According to EndAllDisease.com, Neocutis
“beauty” products and anti-wrinkle creams are made from aborted male baby cells
collected after a 14-week gestation period.

The following list
outlines processed “food” products, vaccines and “beauty
products” known to contain ingredients derived from aborted human babies (and
there are likelymanymore;
your best bet is to avoidall processed foods in general):